Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
AGNES REPPLIER
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts – facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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